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Jon Bounds - gone to BSkyB Profile picture
Jon Bounds - gone to BSkyB
@bounder
Marxist with ‘70s sitcom fixation. Edits @ParadiseCircus, writes the odd book eg @pierreview. on @BTLPodcast Now at @bounder.bsky.social
Jun 8, 2021 • 16 tweets • 10 min read
When Sócrates was transferred to Fiorentina, he said: “I’m not interested in cars, luxury homes, I don’t want to grow old accumulating riches... I’m here to read Gramsci in the original language.”

#KeepPoliticsInFootball #MarxistFootballers Inter Milan captain and Argentinean full-back Javier Zanetti persuaded his Inter teammates to give up their wages to support Mexico’s Zapatista rebels - and tried to arrange a friendly with them.

#KeepPoliticsInFootball #MarxistFootballers
Sep 2, 2019 • 10 tweets • 2 min read
Let’s remember how we got here:

The Tories and their coalition cut our services and created 130,000 deaths, despair and a desire to kick the established order The entitled top tier of the Tories called a badly worded referendum on an issue not in the top ten of people's concerns to save their own party: and dismissed warnings that it wasn’t clear how it would be implemented.
Jul 27, 2019 • 73 tweets • 26 min read
Staying in Cornwall at a lovely cottage. I’ve got my own books (including The State in Capitalist Society by Ralph Miliband) but found this on the shelf. I am going in. #jossysgiantsthenovel
May 4, 2019 • 16 tweets • 3 min read
I stood for Labour in Oxfordshire in the local elections, in a remain-voting constituency, with incumbent Tories. Labour had one the seat in the past (2011, slightly different ward boundaries).

Here's what I learned… First more context: ward is approx 50% '(white) working class' and quite poor, and 50% more middle class. Little diversity, to tell the truth (certainly feels like that to me as an exiled Brummie). 2 Tories, 2 Lib Dems and me as candidates (no, UKIP, Green or others).
Feb 22, 2019 • 11 tweets • 2 min read
The psychology of some leave voters now hardened into 'just leave' brexiters and some anti-Corbyn 'centrists' seems remarkably similar. They took an initial position for many reasons and rather than the evidence changing their position it merely changes the arguments for it. 1/ In the case of the 'politically homeless' it's hard to see what many of them (nice people, who consider themselves to want a just and fair world) have as a problem with the current labour party leadership and the membership-supported policy raft. 2/

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